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12-28-00
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and a pyre is a wooden platform they would place a dead body on, then light it on fire as a form of funeral. When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
- John Adams |